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... soon afterwards , he was elected a burgess or junior member of the corporation ; in 1558 and 1559 he served the office of constable , which duty appears then to have been imposed upon the younger members of the corporate body ; lastly ...
... soon afterwards , he was elected a burgess or junior member of the corporation ; in 1558 and 1559 he served the office of constable , which duty appears then to have been imposed upon the younger members of the corporate body ; lastly ...
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... soon to hell , my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side , And would corrupt my saint to be a devil , Wooing his purity with her foul pride . And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend , Suspect I may , but not directly tell ...
... soon to hell , my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side , And would corrupt my saint to be a devil , Wooing his purity with her foul pride . And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend , Suspect I may , but not directly tell ...
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... soon after appointed assessor to the judicial court of Ajaccio . He was then in straitened circumstances , as he had spent most of his little property in a speculation of some salterns , after having previously lost a suit against the ...
... soon after appointed assessor to the judicial court of Ajaccio . He was then in straitened circumstances , as he had spent most of his little property in a speculation of some salterns , after having previously lost a suit against the ...
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... soon after appeared on the coast , landed troops , and assisted Paoli , and the French were obliged to quit the island . Napoleon also left it about May , 1793 , and his mother and sisters with him . After seeing them safe to Marseille ...
... soon after appeared on the coast , landed troops , and assisted Paoli , and the French were obliged to quit the island . Napoleon also left it about May , 1793 , and his mother and sisters with him . After seeing them safe to Marseille ...
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... Soon after a fresh conspiracy of the royalists , some say of the royalists and Jacobins united , was near ter- minating the life of the first consul . As Bonaparte was pass- ing in his carriage through the Rue Nicaise on his way to the ...
... Soon after a fresh conspiracy of the royalists , some say of the royalists and Jacobins united , was near ter- minating the life of the first consul . As Bonaparte was pass- ing in his carriage through the Rue Nicaise on his way to the ...
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Page 29 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 26 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have devoted yours.
Page 28 - Thou art the grave where buried love doth live, Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone, Who all their parts of me to thee did give ; That due of many now is thine alone : Their images I lov'd I view in thee. And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.
Page 28 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored...
Page 27 - Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still. The better angel is a man right fair, The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill. To win me soon to hell, my female evil Tempteth my better angel from my side, And would corrupt my saint to be a devil, Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
Page 22 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 102 - That levying money for or to the use of the crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time, or in other manner, than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 158 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Page 105 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament.
Page 26 - But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old ? O, love's best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told : Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.